Paper-clip.



N0. 767,458. PATENTBD AUG. 16, 1904.

A. WEIS.

PAPER CLIP.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.21, 1903.

H0 MODEL.

witnesses.- Invent UNITED STATES Patented August 16, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREIV VVEIS, OF TOLEDO, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FRANK N. VVEIS AND WILLIAM C. VVEIS, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

PAPER-CLIP- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 767,458, dated. August 16, 1904-.

Application filed September 21, 1903. Serial No. 173,951. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW WEIs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper-Clips; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. 4

My invention relates to that class of paperclips which is formed of a single piece of spring-wire suitably formed to clasp and hold together several sheets of paper; and its object is to furnish a small, cheap, simple, and effective clip which shall be of large capacity, in which the clamping members may be used interchangeably on either side of the objects to be held, and which may, if desired, be also used as a hanger.

I attain these objects by means of the device hereinafter described and shown, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 illustrates my device in engagement with sheets of paper, and Fig. 2 the same with my device employed as a hanger. Fig. 3 is a face view of my clip unapplied, and Fig. 4 an edge View of the same.

In the drawings, a is a piece of wire having four bends, as at b, 0, (Z, and e, the first three bends forming in outline an acute-angled triangle, the last two bends forming a smaller acute-angled triangle within the larger triangle, all the members of both triangles lying normally in the same plane. A

The apexes of the two triangles may be oppositely deflected'in either direction from their common plane, and between the larger and smaller triangles may be slipped the objects to be clamped and held. The resiliency of the two triangles on their common base 0 (Z causes the two parts to closely clasp such objects between them, as illustrated in Fig. 1.

When the clip is to be used as a hanger, the two extremities of the wire are placed upon the same side of the object to be clamped and the part 0 (1 upon the opposite side thereof, the apex of the outer trianglec'. 6., the bend Z f0rming a loop by means of which the clip and its burden may be suspended, as illustrated in Fig. 2.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

A paper-clip formed of a single piece of wire bent into an elongated acute-angled triangle and into a smaller less acute-angled triangle having the same base as the larger triangle, the smaller triangle being disposed within and in the same plane with the larger, the two ends of the wire being at opposite ends of said common base.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ANDREW WVEIS.

WVitnesses:

OHAs. E. OHITTENDEN, S. A. DORLAND. 

